EEC paper set at go
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COMMON MARKET assis ance could be given to a pla for a cross-Britain motorwa and to the Channel tunnel as way of reducing the dispute £1000m budget contributio to the EEC.
Last week's Council of Min isters (Transport) meeting ii Brussels gave the EEC's trans port infrastructure gree] paper a general welcome, an the matter was mentione( again when European Trans port Commissioner Richar( Burke addressed a Greate London Council seminar las Friday.
The green paper forms th( basis of a European transpor plan for projects which coulc benefit the community as whole. It includes plans tc clear bottlenecks which have an appreciable adverse effect on the community's transport.
For Britain, which is gurrently' at loggerheads with its EEC partners over its net contribution to the budget, this could include a motorway link between the West Midlands and the East Anglian ports: It could also include a Channel tunnel — either the current single-track rail ling or something more ambitious — or a bridge, if that is considered to be more satisfactory.
When he spoke in London, Mr Burke said that the green paper would not eliminate planning by member states. "Rather, I believe that needs have evolved, become far more complex, and our planning has to evolve to meet them."